Why Didn't Eric Bana And Steven Spielberg Tell Congress About Their Secret Assassination Plan?
Here is a clip of Dick Cheney discussing the secret-but-becoming-unsecret Other Plan To Kill Muslins (OPTKM) with CIA Field Ops head Eric "The Hulk" Bana, who simply must not tell Congressional leaders about these things. Now theGuardianhas new information about OPTKM, and by golly something just seems to be missing .
Ta-da:
Dick Cheney, the former vice president, ordered a highly classified CIA operation hidden from Congress because it pushed the limits of legality by planning to assassinate of al-Qaida operatives in friendly countries without the knowledge of their governments, according to former intelligence officials.
Former counter-terrorism officials who retain close links to the intelligence community say that the hidden operation involved plans by the CIA and the military to launch operations, similar to those by Israel's Mossad intelligence service, to hunt down and kill al-Qaida activists abroad without informing the governments concerned, even though some were regarded as friendly if unreliable.
The CIA apparently did not put the plan in to operation but the US military did, carrying out several assassinations including one in Kenya that proved to be a severe embarrassment and helped lead to the quashing of the programme.
First of all, Meh, because obviously the CIA had people in every country trying to kill Al Qaeda leaders everywhere after 9/11; these "assassinations" are slightly more justifiable than those that made CIA assassinations illegal, such as popping up in Cuba to pretend to kill Fidel Castro for nationalizing U.S. business interests. Also,why was it still around for eight yearsif it never developed into anything? It could still be going on RIGHT NOW, in your home!
The official said he believes from conversations with serving members of the CIA that the area of real concern in Congress is that the planned operations may also have involved the covert surveillance of American citizens, a particularly sensitive subject in the US.
There appears to be common agreement among knowledgeable former intelligence officials that the controversy goes beyond the immediate question of assassination and capture of al-Qaida operatives as there have been numerous killings and detentions since the 9/11 attacks. One former official said that the Bush administration discussed the assassination question in the context of a ban introduced in the 1970's in response to several failed CIA attempts to murder Fidel Castro and concluded that as the US had declared itself at war with Al-Qaida and the Taliban the ban did not apply. [...]
Some former intelligence officials and Republicans have attempted to portray the programme as barely getting out of the planning stages but others in the intelligence community have said it is highly unlikely that the CIA would have kept such an operation going for eight years without advancing it.
Somehow this trail will lead to John Ensign asking his parents for money.
CIA planned al-Qaida assassinations in friendly countries, officials say [Guardian]